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From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Optimize task_thread_info()
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:33:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601250933.k0P9XAg22783@unix-os.sc.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601250234.k0P2Y0g18230@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

Chen, Kenneth wrote on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:34 PM
> Kernel scheduler uses thread_info.cpu heavily, task_cpu(p) is use just
> about in every hot scheduler functions.  Since thread_info structure
> always has constant offset from task_struct, access to member variable
> of thread_info can be as simple as adding a constant to task_struct
> pointer.  Optimize ia64 task_thread_info() to use constant offset. This
> saves a memory indirection whenever thread_info structure is used.

Nevermind, someone beat me to it by stunning 12 days!!

http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h«03591db110e8d195d381a68692eb37da981cdf

[PATCH] ia64: task_thread_info()

on ia64 thread_info is at the constant offset from task_struct and stack
is embedded into the same beast.  Set __HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS, made
task_thread_info() just add a constant.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


      reply	other threads:[~2006-01-25  9:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-25  2:33 Optimize task_thread_info() Chen, Kenneth W
2006-01-25  9:33 ` Chen, Kenneth W [this message]

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